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Who are the world’s best games studios? You’ll get to find out next month when our sister magazine Develop publishes its list of the most successful developers, the Develop 100, next month. And this time out listing comes courtesy of none other than Metacritic. The must-read review score tracking site …
Read More »Develop 100 returns in association with Metacritic
Closely watched list of the world's best games studios is published next month
Read More »Metacritic pulls development career scores
Firm says the feature was 'not nearly as comprehensive as it needed to be'
Read More »Metacritic pulls developer ratings
Just days after introducing its new individual developer ratings, reviews aggregation site Metacritic has pulled the plug on the service. It does, however, intend to reinstate it in the future. "Although our credits database is growing, as our users’ feedback has indicated, it is a work in progress and is …
Read More »Metacritic introduces individual dev ratings
Review score aggregator Metacritic has begun profiling individual games industry professionals. Individual listings of studio heads, project leads and game designers currently show a basic outline of their career work. Data for individual developers cannot yet be navigated from the Metacritic home pages or games pages, but custom entry URLs …
Read More »Metacritic begins rating individual developers
Numbers assigned to industry professionals across range of disciplines
Read More »EA plays down BioWare stealth-review fiasco
'Of course the people who make games vote for them,' says red-faced publisher
Read More »Metacritic adds iOS section
Reviews aggregator Metacritic has – some would say belatedly – added an iOS section to its site to keep track of reviews of games released for Apple’s range of devices. The new section goes live with a huge number of games on its database, though for the time being just …
Read More »Take-Two: Metacritic key to games success
Strauss Zelnick says a high Metacritic rating is crucial to the success of a new IP. The Take-Two Interactive CEO and chairman told the audience of Wedbush Morgan’s media conference in New York that review scores are more important in gaming than in any other entertainment business, according to Gamasutra. …
Read More »Take-Two wins Metacritic publisher report
Reviews aggregation site Metacritic has named Take-Two as the most critically successful publisher of 2010. The company emerged with a review score average of 77.1 per cent, thanks mainly to the strong reception given to Red Dead Redemption (95 per cent) and Sid Meier’s Civilization V (90 per cent). The …
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